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Introducing diversity in online language analysis
7 September 2016, 4:49 pm

For the past 30 years, computer science researchers have been teaching their machines to read standard English -- for example, by assigning back issues of the Wall Street Journal -- so computers can learn the English they need to run search engines like Google. But using only standard English has left out whole segments of society who use dialects and non-standard varieties of English, and the omission is increasingly problematic, say researchers.

Source: Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily